Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops — Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader. But even Microsoft's Chairman hasn't been right in all of his bets. — The Chairman isn't always right. — While Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates …

HOW MICROSOFT LOST THEIR CANARY — As any reader of Techmeme will know, the big story in the bloggersphere this week is Bill Gates leaving Microsoft. — And Techmeme readers will also know that the second biggest story was Robert Scoble also leaving Microsoft.

And You're So Funny? Write My Script — IT is a thought that has surely raced through the mind of almost every performer who has ever been heckled, booed, mocked or made to feel unappreciated by an audience: "Let's see you do better." — Now a Brooklyn entertainer named Ze Frank is doing something about it.

Sony VAIO VGN-AR190G — Sony's revamped multimedia flagship is the first notebook to boast Blu-ray disc technology. — Price: $3499.50 — Not only is Sony's new VAIO VGN-AR190G Digital Studio the first notebook to feature Blu-ray technology, it's also one of the best equipped multimedia notebooks around.

Yahoo Hack Day: Pure Innovation — Yahoo Hack Day, held on Friday in Building C of Yahoo Headquarters (and remotely from other Yahoo offices worldwide), helped me remember why so many of us are excited about what's happening on the web today. After you peel away all of the extraneous layers …

No sex please, robot, just clean the floor — THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a "code of ethics" for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. — Although the nightmare vision …

Openness and the Longevity of My Bits — I've been thinking about a lot of stuff recently. At some point in the future, I'll explain what's been going on. But allow me to randomly babble about a one of the things others are involved in that have become somewhat lodged in my brain. — Openness

It's the users, dummy! — TechCrunch reports that Flickr's APIs are not open to competitive sites. This means closing the APIs to Flickr users who want an easy way to use their content in another, competitive environment. — This will be on-topic in two back-to-back sessions at BloggerCon next week …

Dog brain in a dish plays Quake 3: Arena — Don't get all PETA on us, we're just the messenger, but a University of Texas scientist has grown a living "brain" in a petri dish using 50,000 nerve cells from a dog. We're sure there are many noble things to be done with a brain in a dish …

USB teddy bear holds data, scares children — Generally, when someone makes a teddy bear-themed gadget, his/her intention is to overwhelm bystanders with cuteness. But whoever created this little guy, whose head has to be removed in order to access the internal USB drive, must have watched one too many Tim Burton movies.

Microsoft loses appeal in Office patent spat — A U.S. appeals court has upheld a ruling that Microsoft's Office software infringes on a Guatemalan inventor's technology, lawyers for the inventor said Friday. — Morrison & Foerster said that on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals …

Google targets GPS-based in-car personalized advertising — Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, believes that when he is listening to the radio in his car, radio ads should personally address him about his needs. For example, while driving past a clothing store, a radio ad should remind Eric …